<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Dear BU</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Email for TImor Studies Association list please.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><br></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Evaluating The Scared Cool project:</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Understanding peacemaking through creativity and personal development in Timor-Leste</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">KIM DUNPHY</font></b></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>PhD candidate, </b><b>School of International and Community Development</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>DEAKIN UNIVERSITY,</b> <b>Victoria, Australia</b></font><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><a href="mailto:kim.dunphy@manyhands.org.au">kim.dunphy@manyhands.org.au</a></font></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><b><br></b></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>KEYWORDS</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Participatory arts; devised theatre; Timor-Leste; evaluation; social change.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>ABSTRACT</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">This article presents an evaluation of <i>Scared Cool</i>, a physical theatre project for young people in Dili, Timor-</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Leste. The project was hosted by non-government organisation Ba Futuru as part of their ongoing efforts to</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">promote peace and conflict resolution in that new nation. Qualitative interviews and focus groups were</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">undertaken with a range of stakeholders: participants; staff; the host organisation; audience members and the</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">wider community, to determine their perceptions about project outcomes. The article also describes the ‘theories</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">of change’ that leaders used to guide their work, and issues arising from the data.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The <i>Scared Cool</i> initiative appears to provide significant cultural and social benefits for the young participants.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">These include development of capacity for artistic expression, creative and analytic thinking, confidence and</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">English language skills. There were also benefits to other stakeholders including audience members. These</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">included the enjoyment of attending a live performance, and the potential for trauma resolution and positive</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">relationship building. This study confirms the potential for participatory arts projects to assist with the positive</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">development of young people in highly disadvantaged communities. In so doing, such projects can contribute to</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">positive social change by assisting the resolution of trauma and violence.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; "><br></span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; ">e-journal of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><i>UNESCO Observatory Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; ">, 2, 2. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; "><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(25, 66, 154); "><a href="http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/unesco/ejournal/vol-two-issue-two.html">www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/unesco/ejournal/vol-two-issue-two.html</a></span></u></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Kim Dunphy</div><div>Director</div><div>Many Hands International</div><div><a href="mailto:kim.dunphy@manyhands.org.au">kim.dunphy@manyhands.org.au</a></div><div>Ph: +61 3 9598 0635 </div><div><a href="http://www.manyhands.org.au/">www.manyhands.org.au</a></div></div></body></html>